CNN The Situation Room December 5, 2013 22:36:00
He was given a name which means troublemaker. he was only given the name nelson by a school teacher later on. after moving to johannesburg and studying law, mandela's troublemaking politics began. as a boxer, he became adept at picking fights and sparring with the apartheid authorities which had increased its oppression against the black population. it was then that mandela made the crucial decision to take up an armed struggle, launching the african national congress' armed wing. he was a militant and a firebrand, burning his passbook, a dreaded document the authorities used to control the mo...
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